The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-09-09

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from the farmers Of northwestern Missouri
April l., and not moro than . dozen have
been recovered. An association is forming
for the purpose OF breaking up the dcpreda.
tors.
At Marion, Grant county, Indiana, Sunday
Frank Li9htfoot mistook his aged
mother for . burglar, IS she returned to the
house from investigating a disturbance
among the stock, and shot her, almost In.
stantly killing her.
The stcamer Knickerbocker, Of tho Croms
we'll line. from New York, overdue for several
days, crossed the bar, at New Orleans, septem-
Der !, al I O'Clock this afternoon. Her crew
n passengers were all well. Her bulwarks
were stove in by the heavy seas.
A especial from Hastings, MIMI, says: Two
large barns Of William Miles and son were
struck by lightning Sunday night and burned
to the ground. Twenty Norman horses per.
ishcd in the flames and seventy tons of hay
was burned. The loss is $4,000.
A little after 10 O'Clock Saturday morning
on earthquake shock occurred at Columbia,
Georgia, accompanied by the usual roar and
lasting several seconds. At four minutes of
ter s O'Clock q second and heavier shock was
felt. Tho motion was undulating.
The visible supply of grain for the week
ending August 20. as compiled by the secrc-
tary OF the Chicago board OF trade, was as fol-
lows: Wheat, 3l,99s,O0O bushels; corn,
100000 bushels; oats, $4,000 bushels;
3rye. 1900 bushels; barley, $4,000 bushels.
j. A. Werner, president, and q. H. Phelps,
cashier, of the First National bank of Bur.
iington, Colorado, were arrested at Kansas
City Friday on a charge of cmbezzling the
funds Of the bank, which recently failed. The
amount of the loss was about 5000.
Word has been received that Yankton has
been selected as the see city of the diocese of
south Dakota of the Catholic church. TIE
diocese will be called the Yankton diocese. A
cathedral will be built and a diocesan school
established. Nearly 100000 will he cx-
pended in new bulldings.
Eugene Hairstone, u mulatto about eighteen
years old, attempted to fc!oniously assault
Miss sapp, a beautiful young lady, near
Greensboro, sc. while she was returning from
a neighbours house on Tuesday. He was placed
in jail and Thursday morning a mob broke
into the jail and took the mulstto aud hanecu
him.
An alteration occurred In Decatur, Geor
gia, brought on by an unruly colored man at {
colored church gathering. Officers were called
in and a riot followed, when u general firing
cnsucd, in which Town Marshal Hunt wa:
killed and an unknown negro was shot dead
Tom shivcrs (whi.e) is MORALLY wounded.
1t is freely asserted in Grand Army circl,
at st. Louis that the question of who Will h,
the next cominandcr-!n-chicf of the order, II
an all-absorhlng one. 1t is said that ther.
are now practically but two candidates in the
field for the Office, Gen. S!ocum, representing
the east, and Gen. Gricr, of st. Louis, repre-
senting the west.
The state fair managers of Lincoln
Nebraska, announc that they have secure
for three days ut the coming fair, til cele
brated %trottcr, Jay.EycSee, the first visit o
this celebrated horse in the western country
Jay-Eye-scc will trot Wednesday, septembel
II, against his record, and will remain on tb,
grounds and be exhibited on The track the two
%tsllowing days.
A rumor is current at st. Cloud, Mime
sofa, that E. H. Morse, e prominent ycun.
attorney, agent OF the Minnesota Loan AMI
Trust company, and president OF the E. Ii
Morse Mortgage Loan company, o; that city
has decamped. Parties well Informed on iii
| afrafe, e%O&n that ut, An,@, ,,ifl f,.4 ~.
from $4,000 to $500.
Thoa. G. Knott was arrested az New a
bany, Indiana, on Monday, on a charge o
using the United States mails for ~frauiulen
purposes. Last week he cent letters T.
sumptcrville, Florida, offering to sell q SUI
ply of SO counterfeit bills at a big discount
The letters were returned to the chief OF pc
lice, WHO arrested Knott when he went to tn
poetolice for his mail.
A man riding in box car on the Oman
road was shot by = couple of tramps vino AT
tempted to rob him, when he resisted, and
jumping from the car, one broke his le.g, ne
ccssiteting amputatlon. The waurdc! MAJ
was BROUGHT to Lake Crystal, Minnesota
where 1t was fouod the bullet was in III
stomach, producing a fatal wound. Tin
shooting occurred at ut Iceland.
At Loup City, Nebraska, the juTy IN I'll
case OF h. 8. R%'c'iardson, charged wtt', tn
murder of "skip" Willard, some months ago
went out at 1850 Wednesday evening an;
Thursday returned a verdict of s'nct guilty.
only one ballot being taken. It will be re
p,cr,hnraj that $50 ,,.pp ,ueva rdf.Or, ,f .:r.
newspapers in the SAGE town, and that th
difficulty that led to tn. shooting grew IL Z
articles appearing in their papers.
The extra session of the Montana !cgisl;
ture met Mondly. Cos. Lcs!ie's message
stated that he had called the body together t,
remedy the serious defects in several bill
passed last winter, notably the License law
huun.y law and others. The bounty Law, upol
which a bounty OF ten cents was given for til,
skin of prairie dogs and ground squirrels, ha.
already cost the territory over s4i,00O, ant
has depleted the territorial treasury.
A sensation occurred at Wyandotte, Kan
sae, Friday, when in this trial of Geo. Haml
ton, who is charged with completely in til,
wrecking Of a Missouri Pacific freight trai,
last epring,- Fred Newport, also under indict
ment for the same %effense, took the stand ant
turned states evidence. Vasscn, another
wrecker, had done this at a p1evions trial ant
Viewpoints confession corroborAted Vaesen'
in every particular. He did not weaken OF
cross-examination.
1t is probable that the loss of the rice croI
in South Carolina will exceed S1OO,01l. Al
estimate was made two weeks ago, and ther,
is a very serious question now before the r!c,